Night-soil pan and destroyable lining therefor.



e. E. KINCH.

NIGHT SOIL PAN AND DESTBOYABLE LINING THEREFOR.

APPLICATION man oc1.14. 19 1s.

1,230,4 1 3 Patented June 19, 1917.

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' A H'orney UNITED STATES PATENT onnicn- GEORGE EDWARD KINCH, or QUIRINDI, NEW SOUTH WALES, AUSTRALIA. NIGHT-SOIL PAN Am) nnsTRoY BLn LINING THEREFOR.

1,230, 1 Specification of Letters Patent. P t t June 19, 1917, Application filed October 1%, 1915. Serial No. 55,849.

To all whom it may concern: this Stirrup permits the ejector plate to act Be it known that .I, GEORGE EDWARD as a follower when the pan is inverted KINoH, subject of the King of Great Brit- 7 and so facilitatethe discharge of the liner ain and Ireland, residingat The Poplars, F' in an unbroken condition.

Quirindi, New South 'Wales, Australia, have The liner F is formed by crimping a sheet inventednew and useful Improvements in of tough non absorbent paper in a die and N ight-Soil Pans and 'Destroy'able Linings die box of appropriate section to produce Therefor, of which the following is a specia crimped or vertically plaited taper strucfication. ture with beaded o'ver rim and inwardly This invention has been devised to facilidished bottom. The rim is reinforced by tate the emptying and cleansing of nightsoil a serving of insoluble glue whereby the overpans and to obviate unnecessary fouling of laps of the crimps are securedfltogether and the pans in use; it comprises attachments a substantially rigid hollow bead formed to the pan operating to assist in the disadapted to set over the rim 0. of the pan.

cave section forming a loose false bottom in and consequent direct contact of the conof the liner; and (2) an air by-pass vent might otherwise interfere withthe free disv ng to myinvention, Fig. 2 a vertical secnected to the permanent bottom of the pan C the pan rim bead, D the ejector plate, E pan.

iron of smaller diameter than the pan botlower end of thetliner and the pan bottom, no

charge of the contents when the pan is in- The tapered section of the linei enables the verted, and a destroyable liner for a pan .nesting of a number of liners in minimum Which liner incloses the contents and is disspace for packing purposes and easy incharged therewith and so operates to presertion into the pan, while the crirmped vent direct contact of the contents with the walls offer facility for expansion whereby metal surfaces of the pan. the liner is permitted to spread toward the The liner is a sack crimp molded from a pan sides and bottom when charged.

single sheet of non absorbent paper, and In emptying the pan by inverting itformed with tapering sides, concave bottom, the paper liner is discharged and destroyed and beaded and reinforced top edge 'or rim with its contents, the follower D pushing adapted to embrace the rim bead of the pan. the bottom of the liner downward and so The pan attachments are -(l) a disk of con operating to prevent rupture of the liner the an and secured thereto by a short length tents of the pan with the bottom or sides of c ain, and operating when the pan is inthereof. Air passes freely through the vent verted as an ejector Which insures discharge H and relieves the partlal vacuum which which operates to allow air to enter rearcharge of the liner and its contents.

ward .of the liner when the pan is being dis- What I claim as my invention is charged. 1. The combination with a nightsoil pan In the accompanying drawings Figure 1 of a liner fitted loosely therein, a loose disk is a perspective View of a loose liner accordfalse bottom within said pan, a chain contion through a pan fitted with an ejector and to the false bottom, said false bottom and an air vent, and carrying a loose sack being adapted when the pan is inverted to liner, and Fig. 3 is a detail cross section operate as a follower to facilitate the ejecshowing the air vent. tion of said liner, and a by-pass air vent A, A are the pan walls, B the pan bottom, adapted to admit air to the bottom of the chain stirrup securing the ejector plate D 2. The combination with a nightsoil pan to the pan bottom B, F the paper liner, of a linerfitted loosely therein so as to leave G the beaded rim of the liner F. H is an a space between its lower end and the pan air by-pass vent extendi n from near the bottom, and means normally lying inopbottom to near the top 0% the pan. This eratively within said space but movable vent H as clearly seen from Fig. 3 is a to engage the lower end of the liner to eject 5 curved slat of metal riveted to the'pan wall said liner when the panis inverted.

so as to leave a small intervening channel 3. The comblnation with a nlghtsoil pan for air. of a liner fitted loosely therein, and a fol- The ejector plate D is a "dished disk of lower plate ;loosel v arranged between the tom; it is secured to the pan bott0m by a and movable to engage said lower end ,to

chain stirrup E which is a few inches long; eject said liner when the pan is inverted,

and a flexible connection between the plate and the pan bottom l, The combination with a niglitsoil pen of a liner fitted. loosely therein so as to leave a space betweeii its lower end and the pan bottom, means normally lying ino'peratively said space but movable to engage the lower end of the liner to eject said liner when the pen is inverted, and :i'by pess for i eeonie admitting air to the space between the lowe; end of the liner and the pan bottom.

In testimony whereof I have signeol my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing Witnesses.

' GEORGE EDWARD-HNCH.

Witnesses:

W. J Dams,

H. O. CAMPBELL; 

